Estimate

1.800 - 2.500

Session 1

6 October 2014

Hammer Price

Description

Raised on four scroll feet, base with floral frieze and relief representing putti with garlands, drapes and bee. Ormolu dial with chiselled decoration, framed by ormolu sculptures: Diana at the right, Cupid playing lyre on top and a scalloped plaque with relief representing nereid playing flute at the left.
Oval burr veneered base containing musical mechanism that plays with the hours or freely, adjustable laterally and with silencer at the base
Clock marked BUTTE and numbered, musical mechanism signed E. LECOULTRE (Elie LeCoultre (?)) and numbered
With original glass dome, France, 2nd quarter of the 19th century
(with key and pendulum, wear signs, clock mechanism in need of revision; musical mechanism with defects and missing key)

57x43x21,5 cm

Category

Watches